The “can do” mentor: the professor of cardiology

For someone with a prolific catalogue of published research that has been used for international guidelines, Gregory Lip is a surprisingly modest man.Lip, who is Price-Evans chair of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Liverpool, modestly shrugs off suggestions of how good a role model and mentor he is for the many people he has helped over the years.He comes from a family of doctors—father and siblings—and chose cardiology as a specialty because of how it ties in with so many other aspects of healthcare. “Cardiovascular medicine is very broad and it brings elements ranging from epidemiology to pathophysiology to treatments, making a big difference to improving outcomes in patients,” he says.As a clinical academic, Lip spends some of his working time as a clinical cardiologist at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital. He is also director of the Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, a strategic research centre of excellence…
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